Summary
UniVersushas had one of its best years ever, with releases spanning everything fromTekken 8toCritical Role. It saw two Attack on Titan sets, and crossovers with other anime heavy-hitters like Trigun and Cowboy Bebop.
2025 looks set to keep up the momentum the franchise-hopping TCG has built this year, with the Solo Leveling Challenger Series. Featuring a deck starring Sung Jinwoo as he levels up his abilities to become the world’s most powerful hunter, we’ve got the alternate art you’ll find in the deck’s included Collector booster when it launches on January 10.
The Alt-Art Cards Of UniVersus' Solo Leveling Challenger Series
Solo Levelingis a Korean web novel, and later an anime that this set uses art from, that follows Sung Jinwoo, the world’s weakest hunter. After he gains the ability to level up his strength, like in a video game, he begins a meteoric rise to become the strongest human in history.
Sung Jinwoo’s deck introduces an entirely new mechanic to UniVersus: the Skill Tree. It hasn’t been revealed what the Skill Tree looks like as of yet, but you’ll be using XP cards throughout the deck to level up and gain access to new abilities.
This inherently makes Sung Jinwoo something of a midrange deck that wants to stall and delay your opponent in the early game, before levelling up to overwhelm therm with power by its close. Cards like Grasp For Survival gain you health to keep you ticking over long enough to use your XP cards, while things like Killing Intent can seal your rival’s foundations to lock them out from getting too far ahead.
There are 20 alt-art cards available, with each coming in both regular and foil print treatments.
Description
Sung Jinwoo, E Rank Hunter
Character - E Rank - Hunter - 6 Hand Size - 30 Life - All/Death/Life
Sung Jinwoo begins the game with the Assassin Skill Tree.
Response[Tenacious] Remove 1 XP card from your hand or stage: At the start of your End Phase, level up.
Hunter’s Dagger
Asset -Unique/ Weapon - 0 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Death
EnhanceCommit: Your non-Throw attack gains Weapon. If it deals damage, add 3 Bleed counters to this card.
Response[Tenacious] Remove 1 Bleed counter: After your rival plays an attack, if their health is 3 or greater, they lose 1 health.
Teleportation Stone
Asset - Unique - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - All
ResponseRemove: After you block an attack, your rival must play a non-attack card as their next form or pass.
Clash With The Bloodred
Attack - Weapon - XP - 5 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - 5 High Speed - 5 Damage - All
Blitz: Each player reveals the top card of their deck. If the check value of your revealed card is greater than or equal to your rival’s, your rival commits 2 foundations. Otherwise, you draw 1 card and your rival mills 1.
Determined Cut
Attack -Powerful: 3/ Weapon - XP - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - 4 High Speed - 3 Damage - Death
Response: After your rival plays an enhance ability, they lose 1 health.
[Powerful: 3-EnhanceSpend 1 or more momentum: This attack gets +3 damage for each momentum spent to pay the cost of this ability.]
Enough Of This
Attack -Frenzy/ Fury - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - 3 Mid Speed - 4 Damage - Life
Blitz: This card does not count toward progressive difficulty to play foundations.
[Frenzy-Blitz: This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for each attack blocked this turn.]
Grasp For Survival
Attack - Throw / XP - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 3 Block - 1 Mid Speed - 4 Damage - Life
Response: After you block with this card, gain 2 health.
[Throw- If this attack is completely blocked, it deals half damage, rounded up, during the Damage step.]
Killing Intent
Attack -Stun: 1/ Fury - Weapon - 5 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - Death - 4 Low Speed - 5 Damage
Blitz: Seal 1 rival foundation with difficulty 2 or less.
[Stun: 1-Enhance: Your rival commits 1 foundation.]
[Seal -A card that is sealed loses all abilities and cannot gain abilities this turn.]
Venom Fang Dagger
Attack - Weapon - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Death - 3 Low Speed - 3 Damage
Response: After this attack deals damage, your next Weapon attack gets +X damage. X equals this attack’s damage.
Wolf Assassin
Attack - Fury - Weapon - XP - 5 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - All
Blitz: Add 1 XP foundation from your discard pile to your hand.
World’s Weakest Hunter
Attack -EX: 3/ Weapon - XP - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - 5 Mid Speed - 3 Damage - All
Response: After this attack deals damage, you may remove 1 foundation from your stage. Draw 1 card for each card in your removed from game pile [max. 3].
Double Dungeon
Foundation - Unique / XP - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Death
Response[Tenacious]: After you level up, ready this card.
Enhance[Your turn] Remove: Level up. You cannot level up again this turn.
Dungeoneering Armor
Foundation - Armor - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Death
Response[Tenacious]: After this card is committed due to a rival effect, this attack gets -2 damage.
Enhance[Tenacious] Sacrifice: This attack gets -1 damage.
Fateful Decision
Foundation - 1 Difficulty - 5 Check - 3 Block - All
EnhanceCommit: After you play a block, it gains Breaker: 1.
Improving Skills
Foundation - XP - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 3 Block - Life
EnhanceSacrifice 1 foundation: This attack gets +1 speed.
Response: After you remove this card from your hand, build the top card of your deck face down committed.
Item Menu
Foundation - XP - 1 Difficulty - 5 Check - 3 Block - All
Response: After you remove this card from your hand, draw 1 card.
Leveling Strength
Foundation - XP - 1 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Life
EnhanceCommit: This attack gets +2 damage.
Serpent Scramble
Foundation -Breaker: 1/ XP - 1 Difficulty - 5 Check - 3 Block - All
[Breaker: 1-Response: After you block with this card, your rival’s next check to play a card gets -1.]
Loot Box
Foundation - XP - 2 Difficulty - 4 Check - 3 Block - All
EnhanceFlip: Build the top card of your deck. At the end of this Combat Phase, add that card to your hand.
Timely Recovery
Foundation - XP - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Life
Enhance[Tenacious] Sacrifice: Gain 2 health.
Response: After you remove this card from your hand, gain 2 health.
UniVersus' Solo Leveling Challenger Series deck launches on January 10. Just a couple of months later, we’ll also be seeing Critical Role get its full set, Heroes of Exandria. Cards from both sets are Standard-legal, letting you mix and match between them if you want.
UniVersus
Formerly known as the Universal Fighting System (UVS) UniVersus is a collectible card game in which you build decks of cards, with an additional Character Card that represents you and can access powerful Enhance abilities.